Mahim Pratap Singh Bhopal: The Madhya Pradesh Pollution Control Board had cleared the trial run of the incineration of hazardous waste lying on the Union Carbide factory premises here, overlooking several violations of Hazardous Wastes (Management and Handling) Rules.
On Board Air India One: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Tuesday said that his government will try to ensure that the US takes a
Victims include 100 children; Collector orders closure of Chemfab Alkalis Limited THE ghost of the Bhopal gas tragedy rocked Puducherry s when more than 300 people s including 100 children from Chinna Kalapet took ill after inhaling chlorine gas, which had leaked from Chemfab t Alkalis Limited, situated in s the area.
The victims are yet to be adequately compensated or given proper medical help; their water sources are yet to be decontaminated. At Arif Nagar slum, a toxic waste yard next to the boundary wall of the factory. The accident polluted the soil and groundwater in the neighbourhood to dangerous levels.
Twenty years after the worst ever man-made disaster in the country, victims of the Bhopal gas tragedy got a direction from the Supreme Court for the disbursement of a Rs 1,567 crore compensation to them, paid by US pesticide major Union Carbide.
J. Venkatesan New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Monday permitted the Centre to take over the management of the Bhopal Memorial Hospital Trust (BMHT) and its hospital set up for the victims of the 1984 gas tragedy. Attorney-General G.E. Vahanvati said the hospital would be run by the Department of Biotechnology. The Department of Atomic Energy would also coordinate in BMHT management.
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Narayan Lakshman Washington: The U.S. government virtually ruled out any further review of the investigation into the Bhopal industrial disaster of 1984, and in particular refused to discuss the extradition of American citizen Warren Anderson, CEO of the company behind the leak of poisonous gasses that led to the death of many thousands of people.
CORNERED over its role in the fleeing of Warren Anderson, Congress on Thursday came under heavy shelling from the Opposition. BJP and the Left said the then Congress government at the Centre came under
Deliberating on remediation measures, the Group of Ministers (GoM) headed by Home Minister P Chidambaram on Sunday considered a number of clean-up options, including building a memorial and burying part of the toxic waste at the disaster site in Bhopal where the Union Carbide factory is located.
After a lot of debate on whether Dow, which took over Union Carbide, should be made liable for enhanced compensation to Bhopal gas victims, the Centre on Friday filed a curative petition in the Supreme Court against its two verdicts on civil suits related to the compensation issue. The first verdict of the apex court, in 1989, gave approval to the out-of-court settlement between the Indian govern
The UPA government, it seems, has moved to implement a proposal backed by several key ministers, Planning Commission deputy chairman Montek Singh Ahluwalia and the Prime Minister's Office that Dow Chemicals' business be facilitated in India even while the government pursues a case against it in the Bhopal gas disaster.
BHOPAL: Officials of the state have pleaded ignorance about reports that Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) had deemed Pithampur incineration facility as suitable for trial burning of the toxic wastes lying at the Union Carbide Bhopal plant. Pithampur is among 21 TSDF sites, being evaluated for incineration of some 350 metric tons of toxic waste laying abandoned Carbide factory. Faced with opposition from local residents and villagers at Pithampur, the Madhya Pradesh government has contested incineration of Bhopal's toxic waste in the facility.
Jun 22nd, 2010 -- Rashme Sehgal | A section of senior Madhya Pradesh bureaucrats along with several NGOs believe the solution to the outstanding issue of toxic waste from the Union Carbides factory in Bhopal is to send it back to the United States. They cite the precedent of the Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board (TNPCB) having ordered Hindustan Lever Limited (HLL)
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India will pay an extra 713 million rupees ($15.8 million) in compensation to the victims of the world's worst industrial accident that killed thousands in 1984, the government said in a statement late on Thursday. India says about 3,500 people died when a Union Carbide plant in the central Indian city of Bhopal accidentally released toxic gases into the air, but activists say 25,000 died in th
NEW DELHI: The Centre is likely to foot the bill for remediation, or cleaning up, of the contaminated site of the Union Carbide plant in Bhopal. This is expected to be among the recommendations of the group of ministers (GoM), which are to be finalized and handed over to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh by Monday afternoon.
